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What about installing Steam in Wine and then use it to download the beta version? I'll just wait for the official V19 but someone on the forums mentioned doing something like this..

Yes, I was able to launch alien base missions and they never failed when loading (I have had occasional crashes during combat, though, when most of the aliens were already dead and of course the saves didn't work, either...). V18 stable on OpenSUSE 12.3

No, beta builds will not be available through Steam for Linux and Mac. You can get them from Desura (and that other store), but only the stable experimental builds. Windows users get the minor updates as well

One question: it is mentioned in the Cesian (I think?) autopsy that these aliens are so similar to humans that it cannot be a coincidence. But this rather chilling observation doesn't lead anywhere, does it? Or have I missed something?

I don't think outer UFO doors should be destructible: if those things can survive atmosphere entry and direct alenium air-to-air torpedo hits, they shouldn't crumble when hit by a hand held RPG.

There is a whole novella included? Like in the good old days when one would get a whole book in the game box, not just the CD and maybe a crappy action figurine if one pays an enormous extra amount of cash? I love you guys!

Ah well doesn't matter, I'm spending way too much time playing V18 as it is, I should just tell myself to wait a bit for the next build (currently some crashes are getting annoying) I do hope any crash reports I/we might find won't be too outdated if all Linux/Mac players are on the stable version while you guys are steaming ahead with the experimental builds..

Did you copy the game from a Windows computer with Steam installed? That would be a problem for me as I am windowless I could install Steam under Wine I guess, but in that case I may just wait for the next stable build. Will the stable version of V19 be available from Desura?

I have access to the Desura store, but it only has V18. Is there no way then to get the latest builds?

Update: I checked Steam log files and they contain the following (app 223830 is Xenonauts as other lines from the same log file indicate, I presume 223833 is the experimental branch's ID? Or a typo in a config file causing the whole thing to fail in the first place?): [2013-07-23 09:32:45] Scheduler update appID 223830: Priority First, legacy=no, restore=""[2013-07-23 09:32:45] AppID 223830 state changed : 0x00000102 = Update Required,Update Running,[2013-07-23 09:32:45] AppID 223830 state changed : 0x00010102 = Update Required,Update Running,Reconfiguring,[2013-07-23 09:32:45] Missing encrypted manifest section for depotID 223833[2013-07-23 09:32:45] Invalid manifest for depotID 223833, branch "Experimental", skipping depot It then switches to the non-experimental branch and happily concludes that the game is installed (as the stable branch contains no files), providing no error message. Maybe you guys have an error in Steam's Linux manifest?

Hey guys, anyone have success getting the latest betas from Steam on Linux? I downloaded the Desura version (and I'm having a blast playing it!) but I'd love to test the newer builds as well, especially as I'm reading about shields, grenade fixes and other goodies here on the forums I entered the access code for betas and chose the Experimantal branch, but still no content gets downloaded. I tried removing and reinstalling the game, but no luck. Has anyone had more success?

Oh and about the permissions: I gave read permission to all files and execute permission to all folders in the assets subfolder and now I can play as non-root.

This game is so good and brings back so many memories I got goosebumps several times while playing it I did get another crash though, when I was viewing the newly researched land vehicle. Attaching stack trace. wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0009), starting debugger...Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000).Register dump:CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006bEIP:00000000 ESP:0032f6f0 EBP:0032fa68 EFLAGS:00210202( R- -- I - - - )EAX:00000000 EBX:00000001 ECX:546839a8 EDX:55452630ESI:1550ae38 EDI:557742c0Stack dump:0x0032f6f0: 0042928c 55452630 df522e57 1550ae380x0032f700: 0032f73c 0095b613 00000001 004292090x0032f710: 1550ae38 1550ae38 0069f65e 000000010x0032f720: df522f8f 546f4f50 557742c0 000000010x0032f730: 154ad848 5469b028 557742c0 0032f7740x0032f740: 0091fcfb 00000001 0047091e 557742c0000c: sel=0067 base=00000000 limit=00000000 16-bit r-xBacktrace:=>0 0x00000000 (0x0032fa68)0x00000000: -- no code accessible --Modules:Module Address Debug info Name (108 modules)PE 400000- c17000 Deferred xenonautsELF 7246a000-74170000 Deferred libnvidia-glcore.so.304.64ELF 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libnss_mdns_minimal.so.2ELF 7dc55000-7dc7a000 Deferred mmdevapi<elf> \-PE 7dc60000-7dc7a000 \ mmdevapiELF 7dca8000-7dcde000 Deferred uxtheme<elf> \-PE 7dcb0000-7dcde000 \ uxthemeELF 7dcde000-7dce9000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1ELF 7dcf3000-7dcf7000 Deferred libnvidia-tls.so.304.64ELF 7dcf7000-7dd00000 Deferred librt.so.1ELF 7dd00000-7dd17000 Deferred libresolv.so.2ELF 7ddc1000-7ddea000 Deferred libexpat.so.1ELF 7ddea000-7de20000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1ELF 7de20000-7de30000 Deferred libxi.so.6ELF 7de30000-7de34000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1ELF 7de34000-7de3d000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2ELF 7de3d000-7de48000 Deferred libxrender.so.1ELF 7de48000-7de4e000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1ELF 7de4e000-7de52000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1ELF 7de52000-7de76000 Deferred imm32<elf> \-PE 7de60000-7de76000 \ imm32ELF 7de76000-7de99000 Deferred libxcb.so.1ELF 7de99000-7de9f000 Deferred libuuid.so.1ELF 7de9f000-7deb9000 Deferred libice.so.6ELF 7deb9000-7dff3000 Deferred libx11.so.6ELF 7dff3000-7e006000 Deferred libxext.so.6ELF 7e006000-7e096000 Deferred winex11<elf> \-PE 7e010000-7e096000 \ winex11ELF 7e096000-7e120000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6ELF 7e120000-7e147000 Deferred libtinfo.so.5ELF 7e148000-7e14d000 Deferred libkeyutils.so.1ELF 7e14d000-7e153000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3ELF 7e175000-7e1a9000 Deferred ws2_32<elf> \-PE 7e180000-7e1a9000 \ ws2_32ELF 7e1a9000-7e1e7000 Deferred winspool<elf> \-PE 7e1b0000-7e1e7000 \ winspoolELF 7e1e7000-7e2cb000 Deferred comdlg32<elf> \-PE 7e1f0000-7e2cb000 \ comdlg32ELF 7e2cb000-7e3f6000 Deferred oleaut32<elf> \-PE 7e2e0000-7e3f6000 \ oleaut32ELF 7e3f6000-7e4f8000 Deferred comctl32<elf> \-PE 7e400000-7e4f8000 \ comctl32ELF 7e4f8000-7e720000 Deferred shell32<elf> \-PE 7e510000-7e720000 \ shell32ELF 7e720000-7e794000 Deferred shlwapi<elf> \-PE 7e730000-7e794000 \ shlwapiELF 7e794000-7e7bb000 Deferred mpr<elf> \-PE 7e7a0000-7e7bb000 \ mprELF 7e7bb000-7e7d2000 Deferred libz.so.1ELF 7e7d9000-7e800000 Deferred libncurses.so.5ELF 7e800000-7e877000 Deferred wininet<elf> \-PE 7e810000-7e877000 \ wininetELF 7e877000-7e89b000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf> \-PE 7e880000-7e89b000 \ iphlpapiELF 7e89b000-7e8c5000 Deferred msacm32<elf> \-PE 7e8a0000-7e8c5000 \ msacm32ELF 7e8c5000-7e945000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf> \-PE 7e8d0000-7e945000 \ rpcrt4ELF 7e945000-7ea6f000 Deferred ole32<elf> \-PE 7e960000-7ea6f000 \ ole32ELF 7ea6f000-7eada000 Deferred advapi32<elf> \-PE 7ea80000-7eada000 \ advapi32ELF 7eada000-7eba8000 Deferred gdi32<elf> \-PE 7eaf0000-7eba8000 \ gdi32ELF 7eba8000-7ecfb000 Deferred user32<elf> \-PE 7ebc0000-7ecfb000 \ user32ELF 7ecfb000-7edad000 Deferred winmm<elf> \-PE 7ed00000-7edad000 \ winmmELF 7edad000-7edfb000 Deferred dsound<elf> \-PE 7edb0000-7edfb000 \ dsoundELF 7ef6a000-7ef78000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2ELF 7ef78000-7ef84000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2ELF 7ef84000-7ef9d000 Deferred libnsl.so.1ELF 7ef9d000-7efa6000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2ELF 7efa6000-7efd2000 Deferred libm.so.6ELF 7efd9000-7efdd000 Deferred libxau.so.6ELF 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Update: I checked the assets folder in /opt/xenonauts and it had the wrong permissions. I tried running the game as root and it started up! Gonna try playing it now